SPAN 3630 - [Family Ties: Kinship, Incest, and Adultery in Modern Spain]

(crosslisted) FGSS 3631
(LA-AS) Satisfies Option 1.

Fall. Not offered 2017-2018. 4 credits. Student option grading.

Prerequisite: SPAN 2140, SPAN 2150, SPAN 2170, or CASE Q++, or permission of instructor. Conducted in Spanish.

J. Chang.

Love and adultery are at the center of Benito Pérez Galdós’s fiction. In this course we will examine these themes in relation to competing notions of gender and sexuality, as well as the formation of the bourgeois family. We will couple our study of the novel with medical literature, religious texts, illustrated magazines, and domestic manuals.